From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] kthread: remove unused macros
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 10:22:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170518082201.GA3812@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170517120952.GB7297@pathway.suse.cz>
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 02:09:52PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Tue 2017-05-16 13:48:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > KTHREAD_DELAYED_WORK_INIT and DEFINE_KTHREAD_DELAYED_WORK are unused
> > and are using a timer helper that's about to go away.
>
> A patch using this API is flying around, see
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476715742-14924-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
> And I have one more, for hung_task.c, in the drawer.
>
> I admit that I got sidetracked and did not push these conversions
> last months. But the conversions are useful and I want to continue
> or find a trainee that might continue.
>
> I wanted to make your life easier, took inspiration from the
> workqueues conversion and prepared the patch below. It is tested
> with the above mentioned API user.
>
> Please, let me known if you would prefer another approach.
> I do not want to complicate development of the new timer API.
Thanks, I'll add your patch to the series. I just have a tendency to
remove unused bits instead of trying to fix them up without being able
to test the result.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-18 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-16 11:48 RFC: better timer interface Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 11:48 ` [PATCH 1/9] timers: remove the fn and data arguments to call_timer_fn Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 11:48 ` [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 19:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-05-16 20:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-18 8:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 8:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-21 7:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-21 12:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-21 17:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-21 18:23 ` Al Viro
2017-05-19 10:48 ` David Laight
2017-05-21 6:57 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2017-05-16 11:48 ` [PATCH 3/9] kthread: remove unused macros Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-17 12:09 ` Petr Mladek
2017-05-18 8:22 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-05-16 11:48 ` [PATCH 4/9] workqueue: switch to modern timers Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 11:48 ` [PATCH 5/9] powerpc/numa: switch topology_timer to modern timer Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 11:48 ` [PATCH 6/9] s390: switch topology_timer to a " Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 11:48 ` [PATCH 7/9] s390: switch lgr timer " Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 11:48 ` [PATCH 8/9] tlclk: switch switchover_timer " Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 11:48 ` [PATCH 9/9] timers: remove old timer initialization macros Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 19:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-18 8:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 15:45 ` RFC: better timer interface Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-16 15:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 20:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-18 8:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-21 17:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-21 18:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-22 11:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-22 19:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-23 11:36 ` David Laight
2017-05-23 11:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-23 12:51 ` David Laight
2017-05-23 13:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-22 13:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-22 19:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
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